The first table below looks at the demand for Service Delivery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Service Delivery over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Bradford region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Services Delivery
Rank 23 21 -
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 1 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 0.633% 3.974% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.935% 6.316% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £355 £338 £350
% change year-on-year
+5.18% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £17.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +2.94%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bradford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
107 95 85
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 67.72% 62.91% 70.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 30 17
Average daily rate £320 £213 £205
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.58% +3.65%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £150 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £450 £315
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
Average hourly rate £12.42 £32.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-61.78% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Service Delivery
West Yorkshire

Service Delivery
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Service Delivery across the Bradford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Bradford Service Delivery Jobs Demand Trend

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Service Delivery across the Bradford region.

Bradford Service Delivery Daily Rate Trend

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Service Delivery across the Bradford region.

Bradford Service Delivery Hourly Rate Trend

Service Delivery
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford region citing Service Delivery also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Service Delivery.

1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) UNIX
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (20.00%) Matrix Management
3 1 (20.00%) Release Management
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Data Guard
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Software Deployment
3 1 (20.00%) SOA
3 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) SQL

Service Delivery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford region citing Service Delivery also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Service Delivery. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Service Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Deployment Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle DBA
1 1 (20.00%) Transition Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Software Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) DBA
1 1 (20.00%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Matrix Management
2 1 (20.00%) Release Management
2 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (20.00%) SOA
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) HP